Last week, my dad, my friend Aaron, his parents, and I went to Zenkaikon. Zenkaikon is a geeky convention. It has tons of nerdy stuff, but most of all, it has anime and manga. I am a
HUGE Otaku, which is a Japanese word that means an anime/manga geek. As soon as we entered I saw tons of costumes--everything you could imagine from every anime/manga! I was in heaven. I didn't dress up, but I had my anime/manga bling on. After we got our tickets, we went up some escalators to a room where we
were going to watch a lecture called the history of manga, but instead got stuck in the tail end of how to write a book. After we watched the rest of that, we watched a whole thing about making different costumes and the kind of supplies you can use; and they showed us some of their costumes. Sadly we forgot to take pictures of their costumes, but she was dressed up as Erza from Fairy Tail.
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After watching that, we went to check out their video game room. It was FILLED with tons of games. Every station was taken up, so we decided to try later. After that, we went to check out the different vendors and I got some pretty cool stuff. I got a necklace that has the letter L, from
Death Note, which is a manga I am reading, a charm of Greg from "Over the Garden Wall" for my backpack, and the next volume I needed in
Tokyo Ghoul, which is another manga I am reading. We also got a sushi pillow for our basement. ;) After we got our loot, we went to get an autograph from Vic Mignogna, who is the voice of Edward Elric in "Fullmetal Alchemist!" When we got to where he was signing, there was a huge crowed, and they said we had to get tickets to get his autograph. I was really upset.
My dad and I each got a ticket, and waited for a while. I told my dad we could just leave and check other things out, but he said it was at least worth trying. Our numbers were 221 and 222, so when they called 212 I got really excited, my stomach dropped, only to realize that we didn't have 212. When they called 221, I nearly fainted, I was so happy. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of people there, I got called up! It was a dream come true! I met Vic and got his autograph! Man, is he nice!!! He is so cool. After getting an autograph from Vic, we went to meet up with our friends again. We went back to the video game room, and Aaron and I tried one of the new Pokemon games there. It was pretty cool. After that, we checked out the tabletop gaming room. There were so many people playing Yu-Gi-Oh! I wish I had brought my cards! My dad said we should go for all three days next year, and I said I would bring my cards. After that, we called it a day, and drove home.
